Rotatable Actuator Vehicle Display System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle user information systems fail to provide information that is tailored to the specific needs of the user, making it difficult for users to efficiently understand and operate vehicle functional elements.
Innovation Solution
A display screen system with a rotatable actuator that allows users to selectively zoom in on and explore vehicle functional elements, maintaining context through sequential image enlargement and providing additional graphic, text, and video information, while allowing easy navigation and error correction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a menu-type hierarchical function structure is used to organize functional elements, then the information can be systematically categorized, but the user cannot efficiently locate specific functional elements without navigating through multiple menu levels
Solution Approach 1:
The display area is segmented into a main display region and an enlarged detail display region. The functional elements are segmented into overview representations in the main display and enlarged detailed views in the detail display. This segmentation allows users to see both the overall structure and specific details simultaneously, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple menu levels to locate functional elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a spatial dimension to information access by providing an enlarged detail display region adjacent to the main display. Instead of requiring users to navigate through hierarchical menu levels (temporal dimension), the system allows direct access to detailed information about any functional element by displaying an enlarged view in a second display region, transforming the navigation problem into a spatial arrangement problem.
2Loss of information
If detailed information about each functional element is displayed separately, then the user can understand specific functions, but the overall context and relationship between functional elements is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into two regions: a main display region showing the overall context of multiple functional elements and a detail display region showing enlarged information about a selected functional element. This segmentation allows both context and detail to be visible simultaneously, preventing loss of context information while providing detailed views when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The main display region acts as an intermediary between the complete set of functional elements and the detailed view in the detail display region. It maintains the overall context and spatial relationships while allowing users to select specific elements for detailed examination, serving as a bridge that preserves context while enabling detailed understanding.
3Area of stationary object
If the display screen shows all functional elements simultaneously, then the user can see the overall system layout, but detailed information about specific elements cannot be displayed without reducing the visibility of other elements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a second display region positioned adjacent to the main display region to show enlarged detailed information. This spatial arrangement in another dimension allows the main display to maintain its comprehensive view of all functional elements while the detail display provides high-resolution information about selected elements without competing for the same display space.
Solution Approach 2:
The display system is segmented into a main display region for showing the overall layout of all functional elements and a detail display region for showing enlarged information about specific elements. This segmentation allows both the comprehensive view and detailed view to coexist, with each region optimized for its specific purpose without compromising the other.
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AI summary
In a device for providing information to a vehicle user about various functional elements using a display screen system, having an overview image to display the functional elements, having a rotating actuator, which is assigned to the functional elements, rotatable arbitrarily around its axis for the individual selection of the functional elements, and having the property of displaying further information about the particular functional element using an axial movement of the actuator, the functional elements are marked in the overview image. The functional elements are individually selectable by a rotational movement of the actuator and an enlarged detail of the overview image containing the particular functional element is displayable as the information.